The Tote Guys

The Tote Guys

By Ron AlthouseBusinessEntrepreneurship
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The Tote Guys episodes

  • How One Family Shaped 120 Years of Drum Reconditioning | David Levine

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    David Levine chairs RIPA, the Reusable Industrial Packaging Association, and his family business, Ted Levine Drum, traces back to 1906. He and Ron talk about why reconditioned drums and totes meet the same standards as new ones. David also describes visiting the Army depot where packaging is drop-tested.

    00:00 Intro

    00:24 How Ted Levine Drum began

    02:38 How the industry has changed

    09:43 Leading RIPA and working with Washington

    16:32 Common misconceptions about reconditioned packaging

    18:18 RIPA collaboration and the Army drop-test depot

    23:26 RFID, AI and automation

    30:01 Legacy, and the one thing David would change

    ABOUT THE TOTE GUYS

    The Tote Guys is hosted by Ron Althouse and produced by Container Technology Inc., a liquid packaging distribution and recycling company supplying new and reconditioned IBC totes since 1990. Each episode, Ron sits down with leaders across the industry for straight talk on totes, drums and the business of liquid packaging.

    Website: https://www.containertechnology.com

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/container-technology-inc/

    35 min
  • He Built an 80-Year Drum Company - Here's What He Sees Coming | Noah Flom

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    Noah Flom is the third-generation owner of Apex Drum Company in Southern California. He and Ron talk about rising resin costs and why certified reconditioned totes are worth a closer look. Noah also explains the real risk behind cheap "hose job" reconditioning.

    CHAPTERS

    00:00 Intro

    00:33 Apex Drum's story

    03:58 Rising resin and freight costs

    10:06 R&R: a dry cleaner for your totes

    15:19 The international conference in Las Vegas

    24:22 How totes are tested, and the risk of hose jobs

    32:05 Who adapts if resin prices keep climbing

    ABOUT THE TOTE GUYS

    The Tote Guys is hosted by Ron Althouse and produced by Container Technology Inc., a liquid packaging distribution and recycling company supplying new and reconditioned IBC totes since 1990. Each episode, Ron sits down with leaders across the industry for straight talk on totes, drums and the business of liquid packaging.

    Website: https://www.containertechnology.com

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/container-technology-inc/

    37 min

About The Tote Guys

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The Tote Guys is a podcast about the people behind the IBC tote business - the owners and the operators who buy, sell, clean and recondition totes every day.

Each episode, host Ron Althouse…